By the logic of these people, suttee was simply a quaint local custom, and the evil British colonizers showed their horribleness when they attempted to wipe it out. We should demonstrate how enlightened and anti-colonial we are today by forcing widows to immolate themselves on their husbands’ funeral pyres. Or something.

Personally, I think that everyone called Julia should be sent back to the Roman Empire and everyone called Gordon should be sent back to Scotland and everyone called Willis should be sent back to Sax… no, wait a minute. (My middle name is Welsh, but I’m not telling you what it is).

The logic of these people is that they are going to tell you what your culture is and they are going to tell you how you are going to live. And you can’t have an opinion of your own, or change your mind. Or move house (except to somewhere in “the West” or “the North”, I gather).

Definitely looks more balaclavish than burqaic to me – it appears to be knitted if you zoom in close. A cursory scratch at google didn’t reveal any more info on ‘2014 Decolonize’ (though one of the options, delightfully, offered the opportunity to ‘decolonise your diet’ – a gutsy pun I hope) … but I’m going for the ‘Latin American revolutionary’ hypothesis rather than the ‘burqa-clad Islamist’ hypothesis on this one.

Al Dente and others, the garment that person is wearing is NOT a burqa. Google “burqa” for images: the burqa completely obscures the wearer and has mesh covering the eyes. The garment in the image is wooly and looks far more like a balaclava than anything else, and the person in the image doesn’t appear to be female at all.

for Decolonize Media, you’ll see the slogan, “Breaking down the false representation. United in the movement for Indigenous Liberation. Tactical support for the struggle. Organize. Mobilize. Decolonize.”

I am pretty sure it is a ski mask. That is definitely a knit fabric. I would say pretty much every women’s Islamic head-covering i have seen t is either woven or a smooth-finish knit.

In any case, if they really want to “decolonize” I suggest they abandon all media connected to oppressive colonial-era European constructs like electricity, radio, and television. I think the fruits of the MIC (as they refer to it) like the Internet and cellphones should be off limits as well.

I look forward to seeing Maoist-Marxist, Islamo-fascist, and other righteously post-colonial missives being hand-copied by candle light and delivered by hand from one revolutionary cell to the next.

So let’s agree that what we have here is a fierce-looking person with menacing eyebrows and a funny hat. Perhaps it’s an advert for colonic irrigation, or colonic amputation, or something: purity is good for you, and it doesn’t really hurt — well, not much.